Statalisters,
Once again I find myself wondering what the logical or other
barriers are to Stata supporting a "percentage" format type.
I often have variables that are percentages, but to display
or graph them I have to create a second variable = pctvar*100
and put a "%" in the display statement. How much more elegant
if I could simply, eg,
format pctvar %6.1p
and know that this variable will be displayed as 100x the contents
with a trailing "%" (one of the 6 chars of course). It seems like
a fairly modest variation on the %#.#e format; is there some obvious
logical or technical barrier to this? Or maybe there's a trick I
don't know for producing this?
Apologies if this has come up before, I searched the archives with
no luck.
cheers,
Jeph
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